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the majority of the country is with him on gay marriage, with him on issues like inaugural reform. barack obama didn't just speak to america, he was speaking for america, no matter how much that pains republicans to hear. they're out of step and out of the mainstream. >> is it a deliberate effort -- here is conservative rich lowry from "the national review." he writes in politico that the real president obama is now revealing himself. by the way, i'm with that thought. i think it was the real obama, not covered up politics, the real thing on monday. he wrote, obama settled once and for all the debate over his place on the political spectrum and his political designs. he's an unabashed liberal determined to shift our politics and our country irrevocably to the left. in other words, obama's foes, if you put aside the birthers and sundry other lunatics, always had him pegged correctly. mitch mcconnell agrees. >> one thing was pretty clear from the president's speech yesterday, the era of liberalism is back, and the unabashedly far left of center inauguration speech certainly brings ba
the majority of the country is with him on gay marriage, with him on issues like inaugural reform. barack obama didn't just speak to america, he was speaking for america, no matter how much that pains republicans to hear. they're out of step and out of the mainstream. >> is it a deliberate effort -- here is conservative rich lowry from "the national review." he writes in politico that the real president obama is now revealing himself. by the way, i'm with that thought. i think...
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gun reform proposal. and while the gun lobby has come out against the president's entire plan, the numbers are pretty stark. 53% are favorable, 41% unfavorable. more interesting as you go into the poll, the favorables are much more intense than the unfavorables. which means that we've heard, for some time, richard wolffe, that, you know, the gun owners are so intense, and they're the ones that are going to always make phone calls and the ones that are going to always be engaged. and in this poll, and i'm sure we're going to see it in other polls, a majority of americans are more intense about passing some sane gun regulation than are those small groups of people that are going to fight the political death over assault weapons and being able to have high-capacity magazines. >> and a couple of things. first of all, if you break down the individual proposal, the support is even higher, right? universal background checks, you get way higher than 50%. and those numbers really reflect the president's own favora
gun reform proposal. and while the gun lobby has come out against the president's entire plan, the numbers are pretty stark. 53% are favorable, 41% unfavorable. more interesting as you go into the poll, the favorables are much more intense than the unfavorables. which means that we've heard, for some time, richard wolffe, that, you know, the gun owners are so intense, and they're the ones that are going to always make phone calls and the ones that are going to always be engaged. and in this...
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president obama begins the push for immigration reform in las vegas next week. lisa sylvester is monitoring that. the other top stories in "the situation room," what's the latest, lisa? >> aids to the president said they will sketch out his plans and improving border security in cracking down on employers who hire undocumented workers. the most controversial part of the plan is creating a passion way to citizenship for illegal immigrants. he is expected to get more specifics in the state of the union address. a cia officer will spend 30 months in proven for revealing the identity of an agent. his own attorney admitted he was thoughtless in leaking the administration. that was betraying a solemn trust. mitt romney is in washington for the first time since last month's lunch. he and his wife are expected to attend the dinner by power brokers and business elite. president obama was at the dinner in 2009 and last year, but not clear if the president will be there tomorrow. he will receive the ipod award on may 19th and will be broadcast live from the mgm grand in la
president obama begins the push for immigration reform in las vegas next week. lisa sylvester is monitoring that. the other top stories in "the situation room," what's the latest, lisa? >> aids to the president said they will sketch out his plans and improving border security in cracking down on employers who hire undocumented workers. the most controversial part of the plan is creating a passion way to citizenship for illegal immigrants. he is expected to get more specifics in...
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my health care law. >> there's been some movement there, but -- >> looks like these reforms will ease some of the judicial appointments that have been held up previously. i think this is progress. in a body that is so gridlocked, they did get something done. >> can i just say that i'm considering holding a sum wit my husband and mother-in-law to consider possibly changing the family surname hence forth to be known as joy because the reid name -- >> i'm going with -- reid isn't working for me today. i'm a bit embarrassed by harry. yeah. we've been embarrassed. look, held the first day of the senate this long for that? you know, look, the tradition -- >> he has been it on for three weeks. >> this is all he came up with. at minimum, if you want to talk about the trigs of the senate, and i agree, senators are wedded to it, the talking filibuster say tradition of the senate. could he at least have brought that back? i feel like the change seems to minor that it was a waste of time. mcconnell won the negotiation once again. he backed harry reid down. it's a shame. >> i mean, this is somethi
my health care law. >> there's been some movement there, but -- >> looks like these reforms will ease some of the judicial appointments that have been held up previously. i think this is progress. in a body that is so gridlocked, they did get something done. >> can i just say that i'm considering holding a sum wit my husband and mother-in-law to consider possibly changing the family surname hence forth to be known as joy because the reid name -- >> i'm going with -- reid...
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it was obama who breaks the logjam on those trade agreement and passes korea, colombia, panama. i think we can go through a list of a bunch of significant pro-growth, pro-business, pro-market things that the administration did that i think will contribute, and i would put patent reform in there and i would put reforming the visa system to reduce where people come in to visit the u.s., that's a big deal. and if we got some more high skill immigration i think that would help. >> so the next four years, the obama administration will not be a hynde rans to private sector growth getting back to 3% or 4%? >> i don't think -- i think -- >> you think -- >> i think it's a help. >> trying to get in to growth rate. >> -- from the financial crisis? >> i think a lot of this. the fact that normally housing is about a third of an expansion, it's a very cyclical sector. we got way overbuilt. we had 6 million vacant homes. so of course nobody's building new houses if there's 6 million empty ones. if that overhang is cut -- >> let's say the president came to you and said i think 25% of government
it was obama who breaks the logjam on those trade agreement and passes korea, colombia, panama. i think we can go through a list of a bunch of significant pro-growth, pro-business, pro-market things that the administration did that i think will contribute, and i would put patent reform in there and i would put reforming the visa system to reduce where people come in to visit the u.s., that's a big deal. and if we got some more high skill immigration i think that would help. >> so the next...
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, president obama might just as well take the next four years off, go on vacation, this was the time at the beginning of each session they can change the rules. all they need are 51 votes. democrats have 55 votes. they have all of the votes they need to change the filibuster to get rid of it or to change it. several senators, jeff merkley from or gone but also tom eudall. we talked to all of them about the need to reform the filibuster. tom harkin from iowa has been at it a long time tammy baldwin, newly elected from wisconsin joined the crew. tom dashel former majority leader yesterday here on our program told us that at least the very least they had to do was make it for real so if the senator, he or she had said they were going to filibuster they had to come to the floor and talk, talk, talk talk talk as long as they can, give it the old strom thurman or mr. smith goes to washington routine. en stead, it was a announced yesterday, harry reid and mitch mccombed came to an agreement basically, they are not going to do anything about the filibuster. they tweaked it a little bit. any
, president obama might just as well take the next four years off, go on vacation, this was the time at the beginning of each session they can change the rules. all they need are 51 votes. democrats have 55 votes. they have all of the votes they need to change the filibuster to get rid of it or to change it. several senators, jeff merkley from or gone but also tom eudall. we talked to all of them about the need to reform the filibuster. tom harkin from iowa has been at it a long time tammy...